Would Production Support job is good one?

Hi,
I am working in a software firm with 1+ year of experience in development
(java,jsp,struts,javascript,websphere(2months) ...) I was asked to take the
new production support a month back, where i will be supporting to
B2B,FTP,PGP,XML,Unix,LDAP,MQ,SMTP,JSP,Struts.. .etc. Now knowledge transfer
phase is going on, but it looks very dry area for me, I am not getting
interested to be in this production support job as i am being therotical
training on many technologies (some of them mentioned above, web contant
management), i am afraid of my current job, as I may forget my
programming/development skill on java and web technologies.

I worked one year in the previous company and now working with this current
company for only 6 months...so iam hesitating to try(development) for
another company ..

Should I try for another company and get development job or can i be
technically strong (java/j2ee)being in this same company in the same
production support job for the another 6 months. after 6 or 8 months Can i
try for development job?

Could anyone please suggest me on this ....

Thanks
kalirathinam
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Thanks for your good suggestion manik....
Since i have 18 months experience in IT ,i could not decide which would be
good. Yes, I want to be a purly technical side always. but i think, I would
forget my technicals/programming skills if I will be in production support
about 6 months.....suppose I want to do development after 6 months or one
year , It may not be possible to catch up!

Still i consider your points are very good to be in production support job.
also i have plan to write sun certified programmer exam and keep doing some
programming stuff myself at free time, so that i could keep my development
skill as well.

Hi Kalirathinam
Basically Development and Poduction Support are 2 sides of a coin
Without Development Product can not be build and without Production Support Poduct can not be successful
Production Support is good as long you are in touch with Java Coding, other wise you
might lost hands on experience
In brief, better always look for an oppurtunity where you can do some new enhancements / adding new features so that you can do some coding , If mere Bug fixing means then better to quit
Also there is line between Production Support and Development , some people think Production Support is degraded job compare to development .... but its not correct .. Fixing the bugs and doing enhancements to the applications developed by some one is a challenging job and gives more exposure and also you can get customer interaction which is hard to get in Development ..
Also you have every right to enter into Development at any time because for both Dev and P Support Java Interview questions will be same :0 It all depends on how best you do
Both Development and P.Support exposure makes our life complete and easy and can help us to become full fledged Java Architect
All the Best , Good Luck Ahead
Rgds
Pavan
Senior P.Support Engineer

It depends on the location you are based. Are you in the US or India. If in the US, the production support guys are spared each time the layoffs are planned(more job security :).

I don't have to tell you the reason, esp. in the hard core technologies like c++/java/j2ee. job hopping (every now and then) is not a good practice. if you have a good employer and you're happy there, why do you want to do it. if you are bored as you stated, you can try writing certification java program. if you still have more time plan for your project management certification and your gmat exam for mba(it will keep you super busy).